First Amendment soon to be dinosaured by occupant bush..

[dbeach]

AS my departed Dad said at age 89.5 "He's not my President" AMEN!


"http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1036
First Amendment rights under George Bush are as good as dead. The truly disturbing aspect of all this is the increasing complacency with which people seem to view authoritarian government.
By William Marvel

Any remark about the curtailment of liberties in the United States is bound to excite the retort that the critic should be thankful to live in a country where such a complaint can be made. Complaint alone does not restore those rights, though: that would take agitation and demonstration, if not outright revolution. It is only when one undertakes even the more nonviolent of those actions, however, that one discovers exactly how much freedom we have lost
In the wake of the terrorist attacks that saved the Bush presidency, Dan Rather swore that he would “go anywhere my president sent me.” With that remark Rather signaled his complete conversion from public watchdog to popularity pimp. When I read of his retirement a few days ago I could only mutter “good riddance,” but his departure heralds no rebirth of conscientious journalism. Behind him stand long lines of eager actors waiting to entertain American citizens with endless trivia -- while politicians and their corporate cronies rape their landscape, rob them blind, and persuade them to like it."

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. "entertain American citizens with endless trivia" that's CNN's mandate!

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and hey

They's doin' a fine good job of it

Mesmerizing the Masses

They are a success!

(sigh)

[dbeach]

2. Nice photos and refs

Prescott does put the N in Nazi with that most revealing photos at NH Gazette [which is the oldest US paper and only one with courage to run with story by John Buchanan which is of course from National Archives}